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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






2. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






3. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






4. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






5. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






6. Ability to understand and express spoken language






7. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






8. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






9. Multisensory Structured Language Education






10. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






11. Whole body learning






12. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






13. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






14. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






15. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






16. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






17. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






18. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






19. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






20. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






21. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






22. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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23. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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24. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






25. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






26. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






27. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






28. Wide Range Achievement Test






29. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






30. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






31. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






32. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






33. Final stable syllable

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34. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






35. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






36. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






37. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






38. Multisensory Structured Language






39. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






40. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






41. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






42. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






43. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






44. Feeling through fingertips






45. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






46. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






47. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






48. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






49. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






50. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time